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Ethics Board Docket No. 2024-113 <br /> Page 6 of 12 <br /> transfer, or deliver or offer to give, pay, loan, transfer, ar deliver, directly or indirectly, to any <br /> public servant or other person any thing of economic value which such public servant or other <br /> person would be prohibited from receiving by any provision of this Part. <br /> 2. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1115(A) provides that no public servant shall solicit or accept, directly or <br /> indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from any person or from any officer, <br /> director, agent, ar employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should <br /> know that such person: <br /> (1) Has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with <br /> the public servant's agency. <br /> 3. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102 provides the following relevant definitions when analyzing the above <br /> provisions: <br /> (2)(a) "Agency" means a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, <br /> committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity.... (vi) For public <br /> servants of political subdivisions, it shall mean the agency in which the public <br /> servant serves, except that for members of any governing autharity and for the <br /> elected or appointed chief executive of a governmental entity, it shall mean the <br /> governmental entity. <br /> (12) "Governmental entity" means the state or any political subdivision which <br /> employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to which <br /> the elected official is elected, as the case may be. <br /> (16) "Person"means an individual or legal entity other than a governmental entity, <br /> or an agency thereof. <br /> (17) "Political subdivision"means any unit of local government,including a special <br /> district, authorized by law to perform governmental functions. <br /> (18)"Public employee"means anyone, whether compensated or not,who is: <br />